* Philip Homburg: >>This is contrary to the IPv6 design because the network is not supposed >>to fragment. > > The original use case was slightly different. It was about IPv6/IPv4 > translators. The translator tries to forward an IPv6 packet or fragment over > IPv4 where it requires fragmentation. Now we need a unique identifier for > the IPv4 packet. Solution: require the host to insert a fragment header which > contains a unique id.
And I see no functional difference between the gateway and the host generating the fragment ID, except that the latter approach seems to require network-wide software updates currently. -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
